The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-12-01

from uaIe, Gays lne pIOmlssory note. -
promise to pay my life thirty years from
date at the bank of the grave, says every
infraetion of the laws of your physicai
being.
What9 Will mans body never com.
pletely recover from early dissipation IL
this world? Never. How about the world
TO conner Perhaps God will fix 1t up in
the resurrection body so that 1t will mo-
have to go limping through all eternity
but get the liver thoroughly damaged and
it will stay damaged. Physicians call 4
cancer of the liver, or hardening Of the
liver, or cirrhosis Of the liver, or infIamma-
ton Of the liver, but Solomon puts all
these pangs into one figure and says: "Till
the dart strike through his liver"
Hesiod seemed to have some hint OF this
when he represented Prometheus for hia
crimes fastened to a pillar and an eagle
feeding on his liver, which was renewed
again each night, so that the devouring
went on until finally Hercules slew the
eagle and rescued Prometheus.s And q
dissipated early life assures o ferocity
pecking away and clawing away year in
and year out, and Death is the only Her-
cules who can break the power of its beak
or uncIench its claw. So also Virgil and
Homer wrote fables about vultures prey
ingu the liver, but there are those hero
to day with whom it is no fable, but a
terrific reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes and
smoking cigars has no idea that he is get
ting for himself smoked liver. That young
man has no idea that he has by early dis
sipation SO depleted his energies that he
will go into the battle only half armed.
Napoleon lost Waterloo days before it was
fought. Had he attacked the English army
before it was re-enforced and attacked
division by division, he might have won the
day, but he waited until he had only 100,-
900 men against 100000. And here is q
young man who, if he puts all his forces
against the regiment of youthful tempta-
tions, in the strength of God might he
drive them back, but he is allowing them to
be re-enforced by the whole army of mid
life temptations, and when all these forces
are marched against him and no Grouchy
comes to help him, and Blucher has come
to help his foes, what but immortal defeat
can await himf
Oh, my young brother, do not make the
mistake that thousands all around you are
making in opening the battle against sin
too late-for this world too late, and for
the world too come too late. What brings
that express train from st. Louis into Jer-
sey City three hours late2 They lest
fifteen minutes early on the route, and that
effected them all the way, and they had TO
be switched off here and switched off there,
and detained here and detained there, and
the man who loses time and strength in the
early part OF the journey of life will suffer
for it all the way through, the first twenty
years of life damaging the following fifty
years.
Some years ago scientific lecturer went
through the country exhibiting on great
canvas different parts of the human body
when healthy, and different parts when
diseased. And what the world wants now
is some eloquent scientist to go through
the country showing to our young people
on blazing canvas the drunkard's liver,
the idlers liver, the libertine's liver, the
gamblers liver. Perhaps the spectacle
might stop some young man before he
comes to the same catastrophe, and the dart
strike through his own liver.
My hearer, this is the first sermon you
have heard on the Gospel of Health, and
1t may be the last you will ever hear on
that subject, and l charge you in the name
of God, and Christ, and usefulness, and
eternal destiny, take better care of your
health. When some of you die, If your
friends put on your tombstone truthful
epitaph, it will read: "Here lies the
victim of late suppers," or it will be: "Be-
hold what chicken salad at midnight will
do for a man" or it will be- "Ten cigars a
day closed my early existence" or it will
be: "Sat down in q cold draught and this
is the result" or it will be: 81 died of
thin shoes last winter" or it will be:
event out without an overcoat and took
this last chill" or it will be: Thought
could do at 10 what did at 20, and l am
here," or it will be- "Here is the conse-
quence of sitting half n day with wet feet, Z"
or it will be: This is where I have
stacked my hearvest of wild OATS" or, in
stead of words, the stone-cutter will
chisel for an epitaph ON the tombstone
two figures, namely: a dart and liver.
There is q kind of sickness that is beau.
tiful when it comes from overwork for
God, or ones country,er ones own family.
I have seen wounds that were glorious.
After the battle of Antietam in the hospital
a soldier in reply to my question: where
are you hurt?" uncovered his bosom and
showed me cash that looked like badge
of eternal nobility. have seen an empty
sleeve that was more beautiful than the
most muscular forearm. have seen
green shade over the eye shot out in battle
that was more beautiful than any two eyes
that had passed without injury. have
seen an old missionary worn out with the
malaria of African jungles who looked to
me more radiant than rubicund gymnast.
l have seen a mother after six weeks
over family Of children down
with scarlet fever, with glory around her
pale and wan face that surpassed the
angelic. 1t all depends on how you got
your sickness and in what battle your
wounds. Frederick L. Frelinghuysen, the
pride of New Jersey-aye, of the nation
and one of the pillars of the Christian
Church, and for nearly four years prac-
tically President OF the United
States, although in the Office Of Secretary
Of State, in his determination to make
peace with all the governments on this
American continent wore himself out,
and while his brain was as keen as it ever
was. and his heart beat rs regularly as 10
of his physicians at Washington and
Newark, dying of hardening Of the liver.
Satan, who does not like good men, sent
dart through his liver. The last my dear
he was my friend and my
fathers friend before me-the last he was
seen in Washington was in the Presidents
carriage, leaning his head against the
shoulder of the President on his way to the
depot to take the train to 60 home to die.
Martyr of the public service, he died for
his country, though he died In time OF
peace. In his earlier life he was called
me nephew OF his uncle, Theodore Frellng-
nuysen, but he lived to render for God
and his country service that will make
others proud to be his nephew, and which
will keep his name on the scroll OF history
rs the highest style of Christian statesman
that this century or any other century has
produced. My Lord and my God! If we
must get sick and,worn out, let it be in
thy service and in the effort to make the
world good and happy. Not in the service
Of sin. mol Nol One of the most pa